[wplug] 45 Minutes with High Schoolers

[Cameron McBride]

On 1/30/06, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> J Aaron Farr <farra at apache.org> wrote:
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> > Has anyone else done something similar?  Any suggestions?
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> 4) Don't Python and Ruby have Windows versions?

yes.

a very simple one click ruby installer: (windows)
  http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/

I'm most familiar with the ruby world - but I think it'd be great for
something like this initiative.

A nice tutorial for intro programming (now also available as a book
from Prag. Programmers)
  http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/

I'd suggest simple editing, like notepad or pico so it doesn't get in
the way and the younger ones don't think something magic is happening
on the IDE level.  If you must have an IDE, there are several for ruby
- one being:
  http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl

HTH.

Cameron